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The world’s most prominent public relations executive, Richard Edelman, this week spoke out against the trend of removing DE&I and ESG from corporate strategies.He reinforced the view that diversity and inclusion are bottom-line benefits that help get consumers to buy more products, make employees happier, and improve the performance of businesses and organizations. did.”We support DE&I in every conversation we have with our customers,” said Edelman, who spoke at the Women of Color Connecting Summit virtually on Tuesday. And in a typical week with senior executives from the CEO down, there are many confirmed workaholics.Richard Edelman: Repealing DE&I is ‘nonsense’That’s…
The Department for Work and Pensions’ (DWP) Social Factors Taskforce has launched a new guide to help pension scheme managers better understand and assess social factors in their investment decisions and management responsibilities.Recognizing that schemes have different circumstances, resource levels and time horizons, this guide provides a starting point for trustees to better understand and assess social factors with the help of their advisors and in-house teams. The purpose is to provide trustees with the following tools: Identify and monitor social risks and investment opportunities.Specifically, this guide introduces social factors into plans’ investment decisions and stewardship policies in four key…
Recently, I had an experience that weighed heavily on my heart. As I waited to pick up my prescription at the pharmacy, a slightly disheveled man wearing a black shoulder bag and low-slung pants walked past me and disappeared down the aisle. Something went wrong, so I looked around the corner and saw him taking an item off the shelf and putting it in his bag. I walked down another aisle to the front of the store to see if he would pay for the item. When he didn’t show up, I looked into another aisle and saw him putting…
Experts gathered at Harvard believe that the core mission of universities is to strengthen the ability of students, faculty, and researchers to follow the questions that lead them without institutionally dictating the scale that influences how research is conducted. He recently stated that That argument was a point of agreement among panelists at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study on Tuesday, although they disagreed about the types of policies that would be most effective. Experts from Harvard Law School, Yale Law School, and the University of Chicago, which has long had a policy of “institutional neutrality” on the issues of…
Social policy and the welfare state constitute the greatest social and political achievements of Metapolitefushi and this democracy. After 1974, every government strengthened national social policies, some to a greater extent and others to a lesser extent. As you know, the basis of social policy is the redistribution of wealth, the invisible opportunities for improvement (social status, career prospects, upward mobility, institutional rights, etc.) with the aim of improving living standards. (e.g. citizen participation). Supporting the most vulnerable by reducing poverty and inequality. From 1974 to the mid-1990s, and especially from 1982 to 1987, measures were implemented to address major…
American Heart Association Social Impact Fund is accepting applications for sustainable, community-driven solutions to improve health disparities in Chicagoland CHICAGO, March 5, 2024 – Last year, one in five households and one in four households with children in the Chicago metropolitan area were considered food insecure.[1]. As a social determinant of health, food insecurity can lead to many health problems such as heart disease and high blood pressure.[2]. Celebrating 100 years of lifesaving work, the American Heart Association today announced the addition of Grubhub Foundation to its social impact fund in Chicago. This funding injection, supported by Grubhub Community Fund,…
14th annual report includes a look at countries that restrict religious practices and grant benefits to religious groups at the same time This is the 14th in a series of annual reports by Pew Research Center analyzing the extent to which governments and societies around the world impinge on religious beliefs and practices. The studies are part of the Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures project, which analyzes religious change and its impact on societies around the world. To measure global restrictions on religion in 2021 – the most recent year for which data is available – the study rates 198 countries and…
Spending on “social protection” Spending on ‘social protection’ remained the most important COFOG sector in 2022 in the EU and in all reporting EU and EFTA countries. This reflects the core function of government, which is to redistribute income and wealth through compulsory payments. Unsurprisingly, the expenditure category that dominates this sector is ‘social benefits and social transfers in kind (purchase market production)’. Social benefits are paid to households to reduce social risks and needs. Examples include unemployment benefits and pension payments. In the EU in 2022, social benefits and in-kind social transfers (purchases of market production) accounted for approximately…
In December 2022, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the Section 1115 Demonstration to expand the tools available to states to address the health-related social needs (or “HRSN”) of their enrollees. Announcing exemption opportunities. In November 2023, CMS released a detailed Medicaid and CHIP HRSN framework with an information bulletin (CIB). CMS defines health-related social needs as an individual’s unmet and adverse social circumstances (e.g., housing instability, homelessness, nutritional insecurity) that contribute to poor health and threaten underlying health. defined as the result of social determinants of health (SDOH). CMS will outline federal guardrails and requirements associated…
The world is currently facing numerous ongoing conflicts, with the most vulnerable populations bearing the brunt of wars, the climate crisis, and poverty.Bob Marley. Nina Simone. Public Enemy. Sinead O’Connor. Bob Dylan. Fela Kuti. Miriam Makeba. Throughout history, musicians have used their art as a tool for inspiring change and shed light on social issues and global injustices, from the original protest songs of the civil rights movement to charity singles raising money for those in need. That tradition continues today with artists such as Kendrick Lamar, Beyoncé, Stormzy, and H.E.R. who continue to harness the power of music to protest inequality,…